by Miguel Ángel Asturias · Circulo de Lectores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788000117379
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«El Señor Presidente» is the novel by Miguel Ángel Asturias, published by Círculo de Lectores in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
Set in an unnamed Latin American country, the novel depicts a society subjected to fear and the arbitrariness of a dictatorship. Asturias combines characters trapped between obedience and resistance with innovative prose that portrays the corruption, distrust, and dehumanization caused by absolute power.
The novel was originally published in 1946 and was first titled Los mendigos políticos; Asturias had already written that story before leaving Guatemala in 1923.
For readers of twentieth-century Latin American fiction and stories that explore dictatorship, power, and their social effects.
Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales was a Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright and journalist. Winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967, his work helped bring attention to the importance of indigenous cultures, especially those of his native Guatemala.
